James Robson is Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. His publications include Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes (2006) and Aristophanes: An Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009; shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award) and Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens (2013).

Robson succeeds throughout in combining infectious enthusiasm and dispassionate discussion with a lightness of touch and lucidity that should appeal to students, lay readers and scholars alike. A quiet relish comes across not only in his lively discussion of sexual language, and of the ins and outs of the play’s censorship history, but also in the warmth and humour of his translations of the Greek.

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsTimeline of Ancient EventsIntroduction1 Lysistrata in Context: Old Comedy and Athens in 411 BCE2 The Action of the Play3 People, Places and Politics4 Laughter, Language and Logic5 Lysistrata in the Modern WorldNotesFurther Reading and Works CitedIndex

James Robson is Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. His publications include Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes (2006) and Aristophanes: An Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009; shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award) and Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens (2013).

Robson succeeds throughout in combining infectious enthusiasm and dispassionate discussion with a lightness of touch and lucidity that should appeal to students, lay readers and scholars alike. A quiet relish comes across not only in his lively discussion of sexual language, and of the ins and outs of the play’s censorship history, but also in the warmth and humour of his translations of the Greek.

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsTimeline of Ancient EventsIntroduction1 Lysistrata in Context: Old Comedy and Athens in 411 BCE2 The Action of the Play3 People, Places and Politics4 Laughter, Language and Logic5 Lysistrata in the Modern WorldNotesFurther Reading and Works CitedIndex

James Robson is Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. His publications include Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes (2006) and Aristophanes: An Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009; shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award) and Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens (2013).

Robson succeeds throughout in combining infectious enthusiasm and dispassionate discussion with a lightness of touch and lucidity that should appeal to students, lay readers and scholars alike. A quiet relish comes across not only in his lively discussion of sexual language, and of the ins and outs of the play’s censorship history, but also in the warmth and humour of his translations of the Greek.

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsTimeline of Ancient EventsIntroduction1 Lysistrata in Context: Old Comedy and Athens in 411 BCE2 The Action of the Play3 People, Places and Politics4 Laughter, Language and Logic5 Lysistrata in the Modern WorldNotesFurther Reading and Works CitedIndex